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# Signal Strength
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/signal-strength/
- Published: 2014-11-02T12:40:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-06-15T19:32:58.000Z
- Description: Eleven musicians stationed at nine different subway stations play together in real time
- Author: Maks Fus Mickiewicz
- Tags: Seeds, Music, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:25

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A suitably strong Wi-Fi connection can connect people for any manner of pursuits. Remote creative participation can remove many geographical restraints, meaning we can bring ‘dream teams’ together, diversifying talent, ideas and cultures.   
  
[Chris Shimojima](http://chrisshimojima.com/?ref=protein.xyz) has done just this for a recent live experiment called [Signal Strength](http://chrisshimojima.com/?ref=protein.xyz#/signal-strength/), which saw the writer/director/editor bring together a super group of New York subway musicians under the conduction of film composer Lev Zhurbin a.k.a [Ljova](http://www.ljova.com/?ref=protein.xyz).   
  
Eleven musicians stationed at nine different sub-way stations connected to Skype and a click track, while Ljova positioned himself in Bryant Park (early on a Sunday morning when fewer people would be using the network) with 10 MacBooks and in real time, conducted a piece he’d composed especially for the experiment.   
  
If you happened to walk by one of the musicians, you would not have noticed anything unusual, hearing only their instrument; you could however have heard the whole arrangement had you been with Ljova in Bryant Park or here at the artist’s [Soundcloud](https://soundcloud.com/ljova/signal-strength?ref=protein.xyz).   
  
It’s interesting to see the Internet allowing for real time physical collaborations. In a similar vein, the [Collaborative Cooking](https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2014/05/collaborative-cooking?ref=protein.xyz) machine was a contraption by Pjadad/Isberg that allowed up to five chefs to control the whole cooking process from their smart phones.

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